POWER OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA.
SIR BARTLE FRERE has recently written for an English periodical an article in which he says: "I speak simply as to matters of observation, and not of opinion, and assure you that the teaching of Christianity among one hundred million of civilized and industrious Hindus and Mohammedans is effecting changes—moral, social, and political—which for extent and rapidity of effects are far more extraordinary than anything you or your fathers have witnessed in modern Europe. Presented for the first time to most of the teeming Indian communities within the memory of men yet alive—preached only by a few score of Europeans, who had little of worldly power or sagacity, and none of the worldly motives which usually carry men onward to success—Christianity has nevertheless in the course of fifty years made its way to every part of the vast mass of Indian civilized humanity, and is now an active, operative, aggressive power in every branch of social and political life on that continent."